#15 APARTMENT
A vertical condo combination

A family owned
two apartments - a two-bedroom two bath above and a studio below - in a converted 1928 warehouse condo and
looked to combine the two into a large three-bedroom, three-bath with media room, office
and family room. The apartment, with beautiful, unobstructed views towards lower Manhattan and direct
access to Brooklyn Bridge Park had the advantage of the view but existing
windows that stood higher than your line of sight. The layout also suffered from conventional developers lack of spatial vision and effectiveness. A last challenge was to structurally
locate a stair that is also compact in footprint but with enough rise for the
14’ high ceilings as the lower unit overlapped just half the upper unit.